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Lois Lowry QUOTES

1 " I feel sorry for anyone who is in a place where he feels strange and stupid. "

― Lois Lowry , The Giver (The Giver, #1)

2 " The life where nothing was ever unexpected. Or inconvenient. Or unusual. The life without colour, pain or past. "

― Lois Lowry , The Giver (The Giver, #1)

3 " It is much easier to be brave if you do not know everything. "

― Lois Lowry

4 " Honor,' he said firmly. 'I have great honor. So will you. But you will find that that is not the same as power. "

― Lois Lowry , The Giver (The Giver, #1)

5 " Memory is the happiness of being alone. "

― Lois Lowry , Anastasia Krupnik (Anastasia Krupnik, #1)

6 " That's all that brave means - not thinking about the dangers. Just thinking about what you must do. Of course you were frightened. I was too, today. But you kept your mind on what you had to do. "

― Lois Lowry , Number the Stars

7 " It was my journey and i had to do it without help. I had to find my own strengths, face my own fears. "

― Lois Lowry , Son (The Giver, #4)

8 " It's hard to give up the being together with someone. "

― Lois Lowry , A Summer to Die

9 " ...That's why we have the Museum, Matty, to remind us of how we came, and why: to start fresh, and begin a new place from what we had learned and carried from the old. "

― Lois Lowry , Messenger (The Giver, #3)

10 " The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared. "

― Lois Lowry , The Giver (The Giver, #1)

Lois Lowry QUOTES

11 " For the first time, he heard something that he knew to be music. He heard people singing. Behind him, across vast distances of space and time, from the place he had left, he thought he heard music too. But perhaps, it was only an echo. "

― Lois Lowry , The Giver (The Giver, #1)

12 " Ellen had said that her mother was afraid of the ocean, that it was too cold and too big. The sky was, too, thought Annemarie. The whole world was: too cold, too big. And too cruel. "

― Lois Lowry , Number the Stars

13 " But there's a whole world waiting, still, and there are good things in it. "

― Lois Lowry , A Summer to Die

14 " ...you can pretend that bad things will never happen. But life's a lot easier if you realize and admit that sometimes they do. "

― Lois Lowry , A Summer to Die

15 " It is so good to have friends who understand how there is a time for crying and a time for laughing, and that sometimes the two are very close together. "

― Lois Lowry , A Summer to Die

16 " We're so accustomed to laughing. It's harder for us when the time comes that we can't laugh. "

― Lois Lowry , A Summer to Die

17 " Dangers were no more than odd imaginings, like ghost stories that children made up to frighten one another: things that couldn't possibly happen. "

― Lois Lowry , Number the Stars

18 " Lily appeared, wearing her nightclothes, in the doorway. She gave an impatient sigh. 'This is certainly a very LONG private conversation,' she said. 'And there are certain people waiting for their comfort object.'
Lily,' her mother said fondly, 'you're very close to being an Eight, and when you're an Eight, your comfort object will be taken away. It will be recycled to the younger children. You should be starting to go off to sleep without it.'
But her father had already gone to the shelf and taken down the stuffed elephant which was kept there. Many of the comfort objects, like Lily's, were soft, stuffed, imaginary creatures. Jonas's had been called a bear.
Here you are, Lily-billy,' he said. 'I'll come help you remove your hair ribbons. "

― Lois Lowry , The Giver (The Giver, #1)

19 " We're the ones who will fill in the blank places. Maybe we can make it different. "

― Lois Lowry , Gathering Blue (The Giver, #2)

20 " ... and she was awed to see that vibrant life still struggled to thrive despite such destruction. "

― Lois Lowry , Gathering Blue (The Giver, #2)